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How much do you spend on meat per week?

Less than £5

25%

[ 4 ]

£5 - £10

37%

[ 6 ]

£10 - £15

[ 0 ]

£15 - £20

12%

[ 2 ]

£20 plus

25%

[ 4 ]

Total Votes : 16

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earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:03 pm Post subject:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

On a meaty week, between £5 and £10 I would think. Closer to £5.

The huge (much larger than we really needed) leg of Welsh lamb at Christmas cost £30 but that lasted for ever! ... and the cats got a good deal out of it right at the end.

EV

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:08 pm Post subject:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

My figures are a yearly spend divided by 52 weeks, and don't include bacon, pork pies or roadkill, so it's probably a few quid more in reality, if we were buying everything.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4610
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:15 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

My figures are a yearly spend divided by 52 weeks, and don't include bacon, pork pies or roadkill, so it's probably a few quid more in reality, if we were buying everything.

I was thinking your figure looked low for the 3 of you,was starting to think you lived off Trotters,lol

If i priced everything i ate of my own produce ,it would be more like 20 pounds plus a week,and that`s only me.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:20 pm Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

If i priced everything i ate of my own produce ,it would be more like 20 pounds plus a week,and that`s only me.

That was my perception before I added it up - you might be surprised! (Too much influence from the outside world telling us that it's expensive!)

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:50 pm Post subject:

never gave it a passing thought we buy the odd chicken and fish but the freezers are full to bursting with beef, lamb, pork, bacon & sausages. i suppose its because we fill the freezers and meat is on tap we never stop to think of cost (that sounds bad i know but its normal to have meat on hand). if i did it would very as we feed 4 now 7 days a week and more a few nights a week so would be hard to gauge.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46168
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 1:06 pm Post subject:
ds ers seem to be better organized than most for meat . i recon at supermarket prices our meat bill would be prohibative 2 year old oak smoked ham is a deli product rather than a good way to store a dead pig

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 3:42 pm Post subject:

Popped into the local butcher yesterday, asked for meat that doesn't taste anything like either turkey or ham!

He sold me 12 lamb chops, 4 rib-eye steaks and two venison steaks (red deer), cost = £36. This will feed the two of us for 6 days, but not consecutive days, I hasten to add, there'll be a few much cheaper meals interspersed with that lot.

I reckon that our average expenditure is around £25 per week for the two of us.

AnneL

Joined: 28 Jun 2010
Posts: 42
Location: East Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 9:34 pm Post subject:
Maybe you should change the Poll to how much you spend per head? We are a family of four adults who eat meat pretty much every day and average around £25 per week including Bacon, Sausages and a Sunday Roast pretty much every week.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 9:41 pm Post subject:
TBH the poll has little meaning due to the numerous variables, I thought about making it more accurate but the more I thought about it, the more meaningless it became. I suspected, however, like me, most people would overestimate it & be pleasantly surprised when they did work it out.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 9:47 pm Post subject:

Lots, and I don't care. I like the good stuff, and my husband likes to eat meat everyday. I barely drink or take holidays, so it's an indulgence were comfortable with. It is hard to gauge though - i spend about £50 a month at the farmers market, and the same for beef at the farm shop down the lane, add in bacon from an evil supermarket most weeks and ginormous lumps of mince for batch cooks every few moths and it's probably nearer £30 for three of us. We do eat more high quality cuts than we used to, because of time restrictions, so that has increased the bill a bit.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 10:10 pm Post subject:
We reckoned it was about £15 a week. Some times more, some times less. That's between three. (BW is a teenager, but not at the peak of his eating powers yet)

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 11:27 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Lots, and I don't care. I like the good stuff, and my husband likes to eat meat everyday. I barely drink or take holidays, so it's an indulgence were comfortable with.

Me too, food is my indulgence. We sometimes buy a bottle of beer each, £2, so we'd only have to do that 4 nights a week & blow our entire meat budget, plus a bit more!

ETA - not that it is an indulgnce, really, the money goes back to be reinvested in the future of food production, it's entirely justified and necessary - it's actually more of an indulgnce to buy cheap, crap food that does damage the environment, health and people's lives.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 14 2:51 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

I have a theory that a person's "Carbon Footprint" is roughly proportional to the amount they earn. Hence, spending money on meat rather than a holiday is a carbon neutral (ish) decision. Similarly, its no use being saintly in the Vegetarian:Omnivore debate if you pop off to the Seychelles for your holiday.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 14 2:58 pm Post subject:
No, but the added sunshine will overcome the vegetarians natural miserableness. And keeps them out of the way for a fortnight.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46168
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 14 10:35 pm Post subject:

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